The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-04-16
News of the week.

majority against Ine IrohlnlIion athehuniO"e
in Michigan at 1876.
Samuel Simpson, brother of General U. s.
Grants mother, died last Friday at Bantam,
Ohio, aged 81 years.
Several persons were burned to death in
tenement-hou fire in New York on Thurs
day night of last week, and twenty-four others
terribly injured.
Right Rev. Alfred Lee, Bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese OF Delaware,
died on Tuesday at Wilmington, in the o0th
year of his age.
In a farm house near Syracuse, New York,
on Saturday, John. Holland, aged z years,
was found dead, and his wife lay beside him,
Just alive. She said he died ten days before
from cold and starvation.
Nearly ten thousand immigrants, the ma
iority Irish and Italians, arrived in New York
on Friday and Saturday last. Three-ifths of
them were booked by the railroads for points
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John T. Raymond, the well-known come
dian, died early Sunday morning, in Evans
vile. Indiana. He arrived there from the
South on Friday i'll from an intestinal disorder
complicated with heart disease.
AT a convention of the peach growers of
Warren and Hunterdon counties, New Jersey,
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outlook was favorable for an unusually large
crop of fruit, especially peaches.
Louis Gaudin, whose mother lived to be
1O8 wears old and whose wife was buried two
wears ago, at the age of 102 years, died last
Friday, aged 100 years, at Woonsocket, X.
l., where the figures are regarded as authentic.
A case of remarkable coincidence has just
been brought to light. Some time ago Pat
Connors was killed on a railroad at Peoria,
ILL.,, and it now transpires that his brother
was killed in Pennsylvania in the same way,
day and hour.
While bending over well drawing pail
of water at her home in Roxbury, Mass, a
few days ago, a Mrs. Cassidy was suddenly
butted into the well by goat which was pet
of hers AS soon as she was ished out she
ordered his instant slaughter
A telegram from Providence, Rhode Island,
says that by the new elections in South Kings
town and Little Compton last Friday, the
General Assembly stands on grand committee
so Democrats and 46 Republicans -Four
Senators and eight Representatives are yet to
be elected.
A riot occurred in Denver, Colorado, on
Sunday night, between Swedish, Polish and
Hungarian colonies, growing out OF an en-
counter between drunken parties. One man
was fatally shot and several others were dan
gerously wounded. Nearly thirty arrests
were made.
Gov. Hill, of New York, last Tuesday
evening sent to the Assembly veto of the
Crosby High License bill. He objects to
the bill that it is special legislation, in that It
applies to only two cities of the State--New
York and Brooklyn-and that its forfeiture
clause is clearly Unconstitutional,
While French detachment of the Saliva
ton Army was parading the streets OF Quebec
on Sunday it was attacked by crowd and
pelted with large Jumps of snow and ice;
One of the female salvationists was knocked
senseless and dangerously injured, and all the
drums were smashed. No arrests were
made.
During family quarrel in Meadville, Pa,
on Saturday night, Mrs. John Buckholz threw
a lighted lamp at her husbands head. The
lamp exploded and enveloped both IN flames.
Buckholz dragged his wife from the burning
house, but she was so badly injured that she
died Sunday morning. Her husband was
dying Sunday night.
On Saturday evening, while a colored boy
named Alcede Fills, aged years, was playing
on the railroad track near New Orleans,
negro named Ben Williams came along,
boy to kneel down and say his prayers. The
little negro obeyed, when Williams shot and
fatally wounded him. The murderer said
that he did not know the gun was loaded.
At the Lake Angelica mine, near Negaunee,
Michigan, last Friday night, miner named
Marston, ascending from the bottom OF the
shaft in "skipi in which ore is hoisted,
stuck his head out at the third level and 1t
was cut off as though with knife. The dis
membered head dropped $50 feet to the sixth
level and struck miner on the arm. All the
miners left the mine Immediately and would
not 60 into it again.
Terrible prairie fires, doing great damage to
property and causing loss of human life, are
reported in Dakota. Near Madison twenty,
FIVE farmers lost houses, barns, stock and
grain, and Francis Keller was burned TO death
last Friday night. Several dwellings near
Huron were destroyed the same night. In
one of them Edward Maloney and Annie
Marine were burned to death, and Kate Ma
loney SO badly burned that her recovery is
doubtful.
The Governor of Virginia on Monday re-
ceived cablegram from the Chairman OF the
English Council of Foreign Bondholders,
stating that Sir Edward Thornton would sail
on the steamer Etruria on the 10th instant as
their accredited Commissioner 10 meet the
Joint Commission appointed by the Virginia
Legislature to confer upon the subject OF the
settlement of the State debt. Sir Edward
Thornton was formerly British Minister at
Washington.
Two earthquake shocks were felt on Sunday
at Burlington, Vermont, the first at about half
past o'clock, the second, ten minutes later.
The second shock was very heavy, resembling
the conclusion from large gun, followed by
lar of fifteen seconds duration. Doors and
windows ratified and those living in the third
story of blocks say the buildings seemed to
sway to and fro. People ran into the streets
in panic, many supposing that a terrific ex-
plosion had occurred near by.
The President on Saturday appointed as
Commissioners to investigate the Pacific
Railroads, under an act passed by the last
Congress, Ex-Governor Robert E. Pattison,
of Pennsylvania; E. Ellery Anderson, OF
New York, and David Littler, of Illinois.
The latter is a Republican, the others are
Democrats The President also appointed
Eugene Semple to be Governor of Washington
Territory; Samuel d. Shannon Secretary OF
Wyoming Territory, and Edward Palmer
Turner, of New York, Consul at Mozambique.
A Mondays dispatch says: The great
drought in Texas continues, and now extends
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State for distance of 800 miles into the pine
regions bordering Louisiana, but decreases in
severity as it approaches the piueries, from
which section complaints are of recent date.
In the worst part of the drought afflicted belt
the roadways are covered to the depth of sew
eral inches with dust, the fields are barren
even of weeds, while strings of cattle almost
too poor to stand up are travelling constantly
in search of grass and water.
In the general conference of the Mormon
Church, at Provo, Utah, an epistle was read
from Messrs. Taylor, Cannon and Smith, COM
prising the First Presidency of the Church.
| The epistle "congratulates the people upon
the peace and prosperity attending them and
upon the increased growth of Mormonism,
notwithstanding the efforts of its enemies 10
the contrary, and exhorts the people to be
vigorous observers of their duties and to stand
true to the principles espoused from the or
ganization of the Church" IL then goes on
to denounce at length the Congressional legis..
lation for the suppression of polygamy, and
especially the Edmunds- Tucker law.
A circular letter from Cardinal Taschereau
was read in the Catholic churches of Montreal
on Sunday suspending his decree of condem-
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